October 1921

[October 1], 1921 (Saturday)

• Born: James Whitmore, US actor, in White Plains, New York

  [October 2], 1921 (Sunday)

• Georges Clemenceau, unveiling a war memorial in his home village, answers critics who have accused him of having sacrificed the rights of France to "the policy of alliances".
• While on a voyage from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Tolovana with 21 crewmen but no passengers or cargo aboard, the US passenger ship a voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Fairbanks to Tolovana with 21 crewmen but no passengers or cargo aboard, the 495-gross register ton, the US passenger ship Tanana, a sternwheel paddle steamer, hits a submerged snag on the Tanana River above Minto. While attempting to beach, it sinks in of water.
• Born: Edmund Crispin, British crime writer and composer
• Died: King William II of Württemberg, 73, German ruler deposed in 1918

  [October 3], 1921 (Monday)

[October 4], 1921 (Tuesday)

• Died: Madeline Davis, 23, an inexperienced amateur stunt flier, during an attempt to become the first woman to transfer from a moving automobile to an airplane flying overhead via a rope ladder, at Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Davis loses her grip on the ladder and hits the ground at a speed of about.

  [October 5], 1921 (Wednesday)

• The first radio broadcast of a baseball World Series game is made by Pittsburgh station KDKA, and also heard on a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.
• The Golden Moth, with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and music by Ivor Novello, opens at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End, starring Bobbie Comber.

  October 6, 1921 (Thursday)

October 7, 1921 (Friday)

[October 8], 1921 (Saturday)

• The first "Sweetest Day" takes place in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, organized by local confectioners.
• The British passenger ship is rammed from astern by the US ship West Camak in fog in the North Channel. While passengers are mustered on deck, another UK ship, Clan Malcolm, rams the Rowan from starboard, causing it to sink with the loss of 22 of the 97 people on board.

  [October 9], 1921 (Sunday)

• Hungary's former Ferenc József Tudományegyetem is inaugurated following its move to Szeged.
• The Cadle Tabernacle, a nondenominational, 10,000-seat auditorium in Indianapolis, United States, built by E. Howard Cadle, is dedicated by Rodney "Gipsy" Smith.
• Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1921–22: The first Test match of the tour between Australia and South Africa, held in Durban, ends in a draw.

  October 10, 1921 (Monday)

October 11, 1921 (Tuesday)

October 12, 1921 (Wednesday)

[October 13], 1921 (Thursday)

• The Treaty of Kars is signed between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Soviet Socialist Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, establishing the boundaries between Turkey and the states of the south Caucasus.
• Swedish Social Democratic party leader Hjalmar Branting becomes Prime Minister, after strong general election gains for his party.
• The New York Giants defeats New York Yankees to win the 1921 World Series by 5 games to 3.
• Born: Yves Montand, French actor, in Monsummano Terme, Italy, as Ivo Livi.

  October 14, 1921 (Friday)

[October 15], 1921 (Saturday)

• Compañía Española de Tráfico Aéreo, based in Seville, launches the first air service between Spain and Morocco. The company would later become part of the Iberia airline.

  October 16, 1921 (Sunday)

[October 17], 1921 (Monday)

• Brazil's President Epitácio Pessoa addresses Congress on the subject of the crisis in the coffee industry and proposes new measures to protect Brazilian producers.
• Born: George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet and author, in Stromness, Orkney

  [October 18], 1921 (Tuesday)

• The Taurida Governorate is disestablished and the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is created within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• Died: King Ludwig III of Bavaria, 76, German ruler deposed in 1918

  [October 19], 1921 (Wednesday)

• "Bloody Night" : A revolt in Lisbon claims the lives of several politicians.
• Born: Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer and manager, in Hörnefors
• Died: António Granjo, 39, Prime Minister of Portugal; António Machado Santos, 46, Portuguese naval officer and politician; and other politicians, all assassinated by monarchist rebels.

  [October 20], 1921 (Thursday)

• 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane: The hurricane forms from a trough in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
• US cargo ship Santa Rita departs New Orleans, Louisiana, for Italy. After being reported off Key West, Florida, it is presumed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.

  [October 21], 1921 (Friday)

• Shortly after the start of the peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom in London, the German police, tipped off by a British liaison officer, discover a ship laden with weapons in the port of Hamburg, bound for Ireland.
• George Melford's silent film The Sheik, based on the novel by Edith Maude Hull and starring Rudolph Valentino, receives its première in Los Angeles, United States.
• Born:
• *Malcolm Arnold, English composer, in Northampton
• *Mohammad Mohammadullah, President of Bangladesh, in Raipur, India

  [October 22], 1921 (Saturday)

• Ireland and England draw 1-1 at football in the 1921–22 British Home Championship opening match at Windsor Park, Belfast.

  October 23, 1921 (Sunday)

October 24, 1921 (Monday)

[October 25], 1921 (Tuesday)

• Chester W. Taylor is elected as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, in place of his father, Samuel Mitchell Taylor, who had died a month earlier.
• Engineer Hugo Abt files a patent in the US for a new design of bascule bridge.

[October 26], 1921 (Wednesday)

• The Chicago Theatre, the oldest surviving grand movie palace in the United States, opens with The Sign on the Door, starring Norma Talmadge and Lew Cody.

  [October 27], 1921 (Thursday)

• Died: Yan Fu, 67, Chinese scholar and translator

  [October 28], 1921 (Friday)

• The first ever gubernatorial recall election is held in North Dakota, United States, after the incumbent, Lynn Frazier, is blamed for an economic depression in the agricultural sector. He is replaced the following month by Ragnvald A. Nestos.

  [October 29], 1921 (Saturday)

• Construction of the Link River Dam, a stage in the Klamath Project in Oregon, United States, is completed.
• Centre College's American football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0 to break Harvard's five-year winning streak; the match becomes known as "football's upset of the century".

  [October 30], 1921 (Sunday)

• The 1921 South American Championship football tournament ends in victory for Argentina.

  October 31, 1921 (Monday)